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July 24, 2006
NEA Tends the Seeds of Dystopia
The National Education Association is the USA's largest teachers union, and a very convincing argument in favor of any schooling other than public. As Phyllis Schlafly reports, moonbat resolutions piled up at their annual convention in Orlando this month faster than bat guano on the floor of a cave. The guardians of our children's future officially endorsed:
- Blowing taxpayers' money to alleviate "sexual orientation discrimination";
- Using multicultural education to reduce "homophobia" — i.e., to propagandize on behalf of the gay agenda;
- Including "diversity-based curricula" and "bias-free screening devices" in early childhood brainwashing;
- Abortion;
- Non-sexist newspeak;
- A federally funded women's commission to advance feminist goals;
- Every child's right to "freely available information and knowledge about sexuality";
- Teaching children about diversity of sexual orientation and gender identification;
- The United Nations;
- The International Court of Justice;
- The International Criminal Court;
- Socialized medicine;
- Statehood for Marion Barry's District of Columbia.
The NEA took the opportunity officially to oppose:
- School vouchers;
- Tuition tax credits;
- Parental option or choice plans;
- Sectarian schools;
- For-profit schools;
- Distance learning;
- Home schooling;
- Permitting home-schooled kids to participate in public school extracurricular activities;
- Renting or selling empty public school buildings to any non-public school;
- Allowing the use of surveys to measure women's interest in sports, in an attempt to reign in the senseless abolition of men's athletic teams under Title IX;
- English as America's official language.
Making these lists even scarier, the NEA is angling to sink their claws into children at ever younger ages. To get their mind-control regimen off to the earliest possible start, they've called for public school programs "from birth through age 8," for mandatory kindergarten and for pre-kindergarten beginning at age 3.
By the way, last year San Francisco's 9th Circus Court of Appeals ruled that parents' right to control the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door" and that public schools can inflict upon children "whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise."
Posted by Van Helsing at July 24, 2006 8:21 PM
Comments
OK, hold it. I despise the NRA too, but I have a minor quibble with this post. It isn't, and never was, Marion Barry's District of Columbia. It's CONGRESS'S DC, which is at least half the reason Barry took to smoking crack.
I lived in DC for seven years, and had the opportunity to do a little basic historical research. Barry may have been elected Mayor, but no matter what the new laws said Congress never had any intention of actually letting a local politician decide anything serious concerning the town they live and work in. At no time in his terms in office did Barry actually have the authority to do anything OTHER than shovel fat contracts to his friends. Congress (and it hardly matters which party had the majority) was always in control on anything that mattered.
Oh, sure, Barry's a jerk. Always has been, always will be. Just don't blame the state of Washington DC on him, or anybody local.
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for the silly bastich.
Posted by: C. S. P. Schofield at July 25, 2006 12:00 AM
I've been in higher education for most of my adult life...(too) many years of graduate school and in full-time employment as a history professor since 2000. Unless you are one of the best of the best in Liberal Arts (and I'm not), the basic employment pattern involves moving from one-year contract to one-year contract until you finally luck into someplace with a tenure-track position (which I finally have). The point of this little personal history is that I have taught in universities and four-year colleges in Alabama, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Kentucky. I've taught in major state schools, one World Class university, small regional schools and private universities.
In each and every one of them the Department of Teacher Education was a joke. With the exception of West Point, which does not have a teacher education program, the Ed department is generally viewed by the rest of the faculty as the haven for those who don't know what they are doing, and who are teaching that skill to the students who couldn't qualify for any other major. The standards in the Ed department are consistantly lower than any other department and the one constant element that I have seen in every school (again, except USMA) is the Ed department representative to the cirriculum committee calling for LOWER standards! At one school the Ed department even went as far as to demand that the History department adopt a TENTH GRADE High School World History textbook, on the grounds that the writing of the college Freshman textbook we did use "was too complicated for their majors to understand" and said it with a straight face!
Don't get me wrong; I've run into some absolutely brilliant Ed majors and I cherish the thought that these kids are going into a K-12 classroom somewhere. But the vast majority of the Ed majors I have taught are dumber than most of the jocks that I've taught.
Posted by: Uchuck the Tuchuk at July 25, 2006 8:39 AM
But the vast majority of the Ed majors I have taught are dumber than most of the jocks that I've taught.
I bet they act like they're smarter than everyone else, too.
Posted by: Archonix at July 25, 2006 9:44 AM
